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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62665	The bar to free admission to the Lords Supper removed, or, A vindication of Mr. Humfreys free admission to the sacrament of the Lords Supper wherein the most materiall exceptions and objections of Doctor Drake against it in his book called A bar to free admission &c. are taken off and answered : whereunto is annexed an expostulatory speech unto them of the Congragationall way : and also an examination of the book called A Scripture rail to the communion table, by some ministers in Glocester-shire / by John Timson.	Timson, John.	1654 (1654)	Wing T1293; ESTC R25821	78,655	229

of the truth as the only means of ingraffing the unbeleeving Jew or Gentile into the true Olive or visible Church of Christ out of which is no salvation because they have not the ordinary means of attaining the same And where the means is the Word profits not when it is not mixt with faith in them that hear it The Jew beleeved not the truth of the Gospell at all And he that comes to God must beleeve in the first place Heb. 11.6 that God is and then that he is a bountifull rewarder of them that diligently seek him And that leads me to the next thing namely to conceive of all those that are in externall convenant with God in regard of their being in possession of the Divine oracles and ordinances precepts and promises that all such are under all the commands of Jesus Christ and the observance of those commands seems to me to be the condition of the Gospell and the grace thereof to be attained unto in the use of instituted means and wayes appointed by Jesus Christ in order to that end And I do also conceive that not only half promises and it may bees but whole promises seem to respect persons in the Church doing but the morall reasonable and externall duties Aske and ye shall receive knock and it shall be opened unto you seek and ye shall finde If you that are evill know how to give good things to your children much more will your heavenly Father give the Spirit to them that aske it even to them that have it not Hear ye deaf and see ye blinde that ye may see Isa 42.18 And again hear and thy soul shall live Isa 55.3 Cease to do evill learn to do well and then come and let us reason together though your sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool Isa 1.16 17 18. And after the Lord was pleased to express the greatest freeness of his grace to the house of Israel in promising to give to them a new heart and to put his spirit in them and to make them his people he addes yet will I be required of for this by the house of Israel to do it for them Ezek. 36 26 27 28 37. And as the Lord hath made many promises to the use of means so the use of means is ordinarily successefull and blessed to attainment of grace I do not say that any by the use of means deserve grace or that God is bound to give grace to all use of means or that he gives grace to any for the use of means and reasonable serving of God The blessing of grace is promised and also given freely according to the good pleasure of Gods own will And both the means the blessing upon the means is a fruit of Christs purchase by his bloud The like may be said of those in whom the promises of the first grace are performed they ought diligently to apply themselves to the use of all good means and walk in all holy waies of Christian obedience for further growth and increase therein All men stand bound to imploy all their abilities and to put forth themselves in all reall endevours to improve their talents either of common or generall endowments or more peculiar blessings of supernaturall grace according to the advantages and opportunities given them and shall be accountable to their Lord for them this is the tenour of Scripture and thus man is bound to do whether God give the blessing or no duties belong to man the issue is the Lords man is bound to him but he is free to do whatsoever he pleaseth in heaven and in earth And yet it 's true also that the promises of eternall glory and blessednesse belong only to those that are actually justified and sanctified and do patiently continue in weldoing Rom. 2.7 And this I think is neither Antinomianism nor Pelagianism but the tenour and scope of the Covenant of grace to man So then if we consider men under sin and misery being in the Church they are under the commands of the Gospel which justifies their observance of those commands in hope of a blessing And according to promises in that particular case the unworthy guesse in the parable was not sentenced for his being unworthy and without the wedding garment when he was commanded to come to the feast for so were all that were bidden as well as he but his partaking of the Gospell and having liberty to sit down and eat of every dish of that feast of fat things and yet at the end of the feast being found to be one not having a wedding garment this was damning and for this he was sentenced to be bound hand and foot and to be cast into utter darkness where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Mat. 22.11 12 13. This is a place usually misapplyed for it proves no more then this That of those that have the advantage of Gospell administrations some may and do perish for not having the grace of the Gospell Many are called but few are chosen But this by the way I will return to the other part of the objection made by the Doctor against Mr. H. free admission which is this namely That it makes sad the hearts of the godly to see the ordinance profaned c. To which I answer Why should the hearts of the godly be made sad because unregenerate persons join with them in duties of homage and worship and are willing to join with them in the use of the Word and Prayer as well as the Sacrament as means of a blessing Why should any be grieved that wicked men and sinners are objects of Redemption Covenant blessings and mercy shall the eye of any be evill because God is good in sending Christ into the world to save sinners Should not all remember that they themselves were such though now through free grace they be washed and sanctified and justified Christians that are partakers of this grace are all this by vertue of Electing love Redemption and Covenant grace None of us by nature were any better then our fellow sinners It was the meer good pleasure of God in Christ that hath made us to differ And what have any that they have not received and that in the use of the same ordinary means you stomach at in others your fellow sinners Where would you have sinners to seek Christ Jesus but in the Temple Where shall they finde him but where he is Christ bids all that will come and take of the true bread and water of life freely Rev. 22.17 He doth no where discourage any from coming to him O that Ministers would rather woo sinners and seek by all fairnesse and love to draw them to wait upon Christ in the way of all his ordinances in order to blessing then causlesly upon mistake to discourage them and take them off from endevouring after their duty of remembring the love of